Ansel Krut, Spider Under a Chair, 2008. Image
courtesy of the artist and DOMOBAAL.
Dunhill & O'Brien, Portrat of a Hole, 2006
Rachel Garfield, Deep England, 2007
Tim Simmons, Intervention Snow #3, 2007
12 July - 7 September 2008
Featuring Artists : Dunhill & O'Brien, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Jane Grant, Ansel Krut, Kim Noble, Tim Simmons.
ArtSway presents Just world order, a curated group exhibition that explores ideas of control, identity and anxiety as it affects modern society. Featuring new work by Dunhill & O’Brien, Rachel Garfield, Charlotte Ginsborg, Jane Grant, Ansel Krut, Kim Noble and Tim Simmons, the exhibition will embrace theories of displacement and disorientation, both physical and mental (the latter relected in the deliberately ambiguous title Just world order) and will focus upon notions of control by authority, as well as aspiration and belonging in human endeavour.
There is an unspoken aura of anxiousness that permeates modern society: newspaper headlines and 24 hour TV news bulletins report on what appears to be an almost constant, but unspecific, terrorist threat, while governments issue ever-escalating warning levels, all the time encouraging vigilance and heightened individual awareness. However, within the context of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, and the London Tube bombings, there are whispered conspiracies that the US government (particularly with the PATRIOT Act) and the British government, are engineering a feeling of fear within the general populace to enable increased control of their citizens.
Just world order is an exhibition of works by 8 artists (2 working in collaboration) in a variety of media, expressing ideas of angst in modern living and the disquiet we often in feel in attempting to find our place in society. Within the context of the exhibition there will be no distinct conclusion, but rather an opportunity for discussion within the gallery setting. In essence, the gallery will become a place for the visitor to explore their thoughts with regards to modern living; a chance to play out fears, and potentially excise them.
To accompany Just world order, a small publication with critical text by ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell is being produced which will be available from July 12 2008.
Exhibition Associated Events:
Reception for the Artists and Publication Launch: Saturday 12 July 2008, 2pm - 5pm
Please join us in the gallery for the artists' reception and official launch of a 28 page full-colour publication to accompany the exhibition Just world order. The publication features critical text by curator Peter Bonnell, and works by and biographies of each exhibiting artist.
FREE: All Welcome.
Gallery Talk: Rachel Garfield in Conversation with Rebecca Ayre
Saturday 9 August 2008 at 2pm
News of global warming, world conflicts, immigration, and food shortages has encouraged a growth of anxiety in the modern world. In recent years there has also been an enhanced consciousness of the past from within popular culture, particularly of the lived past, or the last one hundred years. Identity, anxiety and belonging are distinct themes in Just world order.
ArtSway presents a talk with featured Just world order artist and writer Rachel Garfield to discuss how identity is expressed in contemporary art through the exploration of history and memory. Rachel will be discussing her work ‘Deep England’, and her practice and research with former ArtSway intern Rebecca Ayre. Rebecca is a photographer and artist with a particular interest in memory, commemoration and nostalgia in contemporary cultures.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Panel Discussion
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 2pm
Just world order artists, Jane Grant, Dunhill & O'Brien and Ansel Krut will be in conversation with ArtSway Curator Peter Bonnell. Each artist will speak about their work and ideas as the group moves around the gallery, as well as their thoughts regarding themes that inspire the exhibition.
FREE: Booking Essential.
Art in Context (Politics and International Relations)
Wednesday 3 September 2008 at 7pm
An evening lecture by David Owen, Professor of Social & Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton and Deputy Director, Centre for Philosophy and Value. This lecture will take place during the exhibition Just world order.
FREE: Booking Essential.
To book a place on any of the above events please contact Jack Lewis on (01590) 682260 Ext.16 or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Nr Bailey’s Hard, The Beaulieu Estate, Hampshire
Streetmap Location: Here
5 July – 28 September 2008
ArtSway and Beaulieu are pleased to announce the public placing of Phyllida Barlow’s sculpture fence on the public walk by Bailey’s Hard, between Beaulieu and Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest.
Phyllida Barlow is one of the UK’s leading artists. fence was commissioned by the South Bank Centre as part of its Art on Site programme and its placement here in the New Forest fulfils Phyllida’s idea of the work being situated in a rural setting. Indeed fence resonates positively in the context of the New Forest, with its enclosures and commoning heritage, although it’s shocking pink painted surface may not be what is usually expected. fence will weather and degrade during its stay, reflecting its temporary nature and may be removed if it deteriorates badly.
Phyllida Barlow makes large-scale installations and single objects. The space in which the work is located determines its form and placement. Materials are diverse but usually cheap and available in bulk. Colour is important and the surfaces can be left in their raw state or thickly covered in paint so that the work situates itself between sculpture and painting. Solo exhibitions in 2008 include a commission for Third Space Art Gallery at the Kilkenny Festival, Eire, and a solo exhibition STINT at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University. Previous solo exhibitions have been ‘Untitled: demo’: a nine sculpture installation: Studio 1.1, A Sense of Place: A Place of Sense, ‘Untitled: after’, a nine sculpture installation: Beacon Art project, The Maltings, Sleaford, Lincs; SCAPE: a nine sculpture installation, Spacex, Exeter; SKIT: a seven sculpture installation, Bloomberg Space, London; Peninsula: a nine sculpture commission, Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. In 2007 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award and an Arts Council Award to an Individual Artist for her project ‘What Do Artists Do?’. In 2005, a monograph on Phyllida Barlow’s work and writings, Objects for...and other things (ISBN: 978190103395) was published by Black Dog Publishing. She lectures throughout the UK and recently in Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, USA and Israel. Phyllida Barlow is Professor of fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art London.
